time to decide, america!
half the population of this country presumably accepted bush as its president in 2001 and went on to blindly approve of him and support every extremist, foolish, misguided and reprehensible goal and action he had the effrontery to advance. the mediawhores in this country followed suit, as if becoming so very yellow during the lewinsky farce and unable to cover the war in the balkans nor the attack on democracy suffered by this country in the 2000 election had turned them into the puppets and mouthpiece of the administration. what do i mean, as if?!most of these supporters in their idiosyncratically american disdain for complexity and analysis ate up the fabricated image of the president fed them by a media who wasn't even fact-checking the government and accepted everything the government proposed before and after the 11 september 2001 attacks. americans refused to look in the mirror and accept part of the responsibility they share for said attacks and gave in to terror and its perpetrators by accepting to be stripped of some of the very rights which define our democracy and citizenship. and so with gullibility on the one side and demagoguery on the other most of america supported pre-emptive attack, invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation regardless of the reasoned, correct and vociferous opposition of half of this country and almost the entire world.
americans, jobless and busy with their reality television and voting for their favourite american idol contestant, have discovered they've been lied to and told how and when yet refuse to believe, to demand accountability, to think and to act. some have expressed disapproval yet reprehensibly and shamefully continue to tell pollsters they'd still vote for bush in november! it has been explained to americans how the policies of the administration make us targets of hatred and terror, more now than ever, yet some continue "feeling secure" with bush in the white house. the blind leading the deaf...
the red cross reported to the military in january the abuse being carried out by the armed forces in iraq; americans were kept in the dark and nothing was done to end the abuse and investigate and prosecute the perpetrators and their superiors all the way to the oval office. without knowledge of the report, the media obtained evidence of the abuse (only after suing the government under the freedom of information act) told the pentagon and accepted a request (demand?) for silence... yet competition and the possibility of losing ratings forced revelation. neither the commander-in-chief nor his secretary of defence have accepted responsibility. they have denied knowledge of the criminal abuse, tried to sweep the scandal under the carpet with apologies and americans showed little concern since the prisoners are supposed to be "nothing but savages anyway". americans seem deaf to the fact that seventy to ninety percent of the persons deprived of their liberty in iraq have been arrested by mistake. «if only they were christian...»
and while all this is taking place, americans refuse to understand why the iraqis don't just welcome us with flowers, why there's a rebellion, why iraq refused to accept as leader one mr chalabi, the corrupt american-backed exiled fraud, and why iraqis think we are evil incarnate.
and now, as a further blow, the american government has had no recourse but to investigate chalabi for possibly betraying intelligence secrets to foreign governments, including iran (according to american intelligence officials) and, in a raid of chalabi's home and offices, seek the arrest of employees believed to have been involved in kidnapping, torture, embezzlement and the theft of government property. this is the man bush and his administration chose in the name of americans to replace saddam hussein (is it democratic for a foreign nation to pre-select the future president of a democratic country?) and lead iraq into democracy.
so, without even considering domestic issues of greater relevance, will half of eligible americans remain at home watching telly and eating crisps, stay at work or do whatever instead of voting on election day to remove bush from office and frog-march his administration out of washington? will republicans, independents, nader and his followers along with the undecided shamefully and reprehensibly betray america by voting for bush&co? by continuing to support him while in office?
enough is enough. america, make us proud: show what you're really made of!
further news: standing of key US ally in iraq falls to new low.
